Samsung has unveiled one of its most unique smartphones to date: the Galaxy A80. This model features a sliding pop-up camera array that contains a 48MP F2.0 main camera, an 8MP F2.2 ultrawide camera and a time-of-flight sensor. A rotation mechanism enables the cameras to flip from facing the rear to the front of the phone when appropriate, eliminating the need for a 'notch' or 'hole punch' in the display.

The camera mechanism is the Galaxy A80's most notable feature, making the higher-quality rear cameras available for activities that would ordinarily involve a lower-quality front-facing camera, such as snapping selfies and livestreaming. According to Samsung, the sliding mechanism is activated and the cameras are rotated when the user selects the A80's 'selfie mode.'

The main 48MP camera is able to capture 'vivid images' at night, Samsung claims, and the technology enables Live Focus videos by gathering depth and measurement data on objects visible in the scene. Other camera features include Super Steady video for 'pro-level action' shots, a Scene Optimizer feature that can recognize up to 30 scenes, and Flaw Detection for automatically identifying 'glitches' before the image is taken.

Cameras aside, the Galaxy A80 features a 6.7" Full HD+ 1080 x 2400 Super AMOLED display alongside 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 3700mAh battery. The model supports fast charging and has a fingerprint sensor embedded in the display.

According to The Verge, the Galaxy A80 will be available in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, China and Hong Kong starting on May 29 in gold, white, and black color options. Samsung hasn't revealed the price at this time.

What type of On-Board/ ROM Memory does the A80 have/ use? (eMMC, UFS-1.0/ 2.0/ 2.1/ 3.0): Given 128GB 'Limit', speed of memory is more important - £670 Fone with less than UFS-2.0 is a deal-breaker, in this writer's mind - QMAMBO13

I have hated (I know, strong word. But accurate.) these stupid curved screens since my Note Edge (the first Samsung with the curve).

I really wanted to get the S10e for the flat screen, but lol, the only reason I wanted an S10 series was for the ultrawide camera; which the S10e doesn't have. Sigh. I got an S10+ for that camera, and it is actually a very VERY cool camera!!! But none of the S10s have an LED notification light on the front. Lol, no indication that it's charging, or full, or that you've missed calls, texts, calendar notifications, etc. It *appears* the A80 also doesn't have a notification LED. Absurd! Plus, I really don't like the camera notch in the S10 screens! What a STUUUPID design! I decided after 7 days that I wasn't going to go with any S10 so I returned it and got my Note9 instead. I like it A LOT, but I don't like the curved screen. Man, I REALLY miss that ultrawide camera! Oh well, I'll just have to do small panoramas to simulate it. :(

my s10e and other 10's have ultra wide. Mine has 12mp wide and 16mp ultra wide. i don't like and don't need ultra wide. not even for dashcam apps. i want zoom instead but price, curves, and only 2x zoom kept me from buying s10. Also too many cameras. 1-2 is enough. I like s10e mostly for camera and DEX. Looking into similar other phones but not scumsung.

While it is a brilliant idea from pure image quality perspective, the rotating camera isn't quite practical for most selfie takers since relatively large 1/2" sensor with fixed F2.0 aperture lens means the background will be always blurred no matter what settings they use. This is why most phone manufacturers stick to sub-1/3" sensors for their selfie cameras; it allows both a person's face and background objects to be in focus and if necessary users can increase the amount of bokeh using software(the accuracy of edge detection is still mediocre if you pixel peep, but people who use this kind of feature won't really care anyway). It could've been so much better if it had a dual aperture like Galaxy S10, but I guess I'm asking too much for a midrange smartphone at this point.

however, if you open up e-eaphone.jp, which is a major Japanese headphone retail chain, you will first got welcomed by Ads of BT headsets (first 3 out of a total of 5). B&H also puts BT its first sub-category of consumer headphones.

You guys eventually have to move on.

PS. I have been resisting mirrorless cameras for a few years and now I think my current DSLR will be my last.

Unfortunately - the reality is that coveted headphone jack is going to go away at some point.... Wireless headphone tech is quite impressive now and while not in the same class as wired top tier cans... for 99% of the userbase... it is good enough.

It's not impressive if you want to use audiophile headphones, or in other words, your good enough headphones to really enjoy quality. The wireless feature is just for replacing the wire, you don't want to recreate or duplicate your headphones collection just because of that.

And mid-to-high range smartphones are good enough for quality headphones to really matter, so why would one want to use lesser headphones with them?

Sure, because portability is about having as many boxes as possible around your super-thin and shiny devices. And convenience, too. Instead of simply adding a jack, they make users depend on ugly contraptions connected to the same super-thin devices.

Edit: And, by the way, audiophile headphones are not "old fashioned". They are simply devices built for people who value quality. And where the disadvantages of wireless transmission matter.

48mp is good for digital zoom without loosing noticeable IQ while zoom in.

Phones' pinhole size lens can not resolve 48mp resolution anyway, but may be 10mp. So 4x zoom can have very much same resolution of 1x, it can zoom in more as powerful phone chipset can fill the missing pixel.

@redtailboasyes, i'm talking that too, just lok at the videos of the phone. As i said when "slid in" they are facing back of the phone, to be used as regular cameras. Not covered or anything. When "out" they slide and rotate towards the user, to be used as selfie cameras.

Such a shame that most phones that use 48MP sensors don't even allow users to take photos in true 48MP resolution. It's good to see that the whole smartphone industry is moving towards larger sensor size, not just increasing the number of MP, though.

Do we know the sensor size? I wonder if it is diffraction limited at F/2.Really nice though. Could be a nice present for my mother that does not use her cellphone much, though would surely enjoy something that takes nice selfies.

the mechanism itself should be fine... after all, you only activating it once in a while. I'm pretty sure that even "heavy selfie shooters" on average don't actually activate the selfie camera more than 1-2 times a day. That would mean a few hundred times a year. Not a biggie.

The problem is what happens if some dust or moisture go inside it. And of course, the fact that this prevent sealing the phone. I just love not caring if i got surprised by a heavy rain with my phone in the pocket. Or having it on the pool side, and even taking shots at water level, with the occasional splashes and even dives, and not worrying about loosing the significant investment (these days) in the phone.

No matter how nice a spin you put to it, fact of the matter is that removing a very popular connector is doing only one thing. Cut costs and removing user choice. And in a world where that wired connection is still better and requires no batteries to remember to charge, i think it's a bad move.Apple does that kind a think brilliantly. Come up with a solution that only benefits them and branding it as a feature that helps users.It only helps them and companies that copy their solution.

Good Thing: It has Video with Bokeh Rendering (others are only Pictures with Bokeh rendering).Bad Thing: Selfie camera is so clear and sharp, selfie picture takers don't want that as you can see their pimples, black heads, etc.

I have a bunch of wireless earphones. I've got my first one in, I don't know, 2004? Yet I strongly prefer wired ones: better quality, cheaper, more convenient (again, the batteries) and mine last forever. Also I don't look like a douche with those white buds announcing I have an iPhone or its imitation.

If anything, choice is a way to go, but that's not the way of the megacorps.

nothing hard about leaving the overwhelmingly embedded and popular standard alone ...... removing a headphone jack has zero effect on a bluetooth user , but renders a jack user fuked ........ when bluetooth is dominant in the market of both users and new equiptment sold ....get back to me

No matter how nice a spin you put to it, fact of the matter is that removing a very popular connector is doing only one thing. Cut costs and removing user choice. And in a world where that wired connection is still better and requires no batteries to remember to charge, i think it's a bad move.Apple does that kind a think brilliantly. Come up with a solution that only benefits them and branding it as a feature that helps users.It only helps them and companies that copy their solution.

Pretty funny how some people keep thinking of loopholes and overrides to make BT *almost* as usable as a simple wire.

I can understand why someone would not want to deal with wires when jogging... Fine. Works for you, cool.

But then we come to silliness like using a BT adapter in order to plug in my regular wired headphones - and now I'm lost. Where the hell is ANY advantage of going wireless this way? I don't take advantage of the higher quality of a wire, I still have the long wire that gets in the way, I still have to recharge batteries, if the phone doesn't have a jack I still can't use those headphones when batteries die. It's like the very definition of the worst of both worlds.

Geez guys go bleed on the edge with your "modern" technology that's been around for 20 years and leave us "backwards" folk alone. I for one am never gonna get a phone that relies purely on wireless sound.

I have Sony wireless noise cancelling headphones which are fantastic. The battery lasts hours and the sound is terrific. If this phone has the same charging capability as the S10 series of charging other items, then the battery is no issue whatsoever. Haven't used a wired connection since.

I have the same. Sony BT headphones that last 30+ hours before needing recharging. It makes the charging headphones argument irrelevant. Sound quality is fine. They can connect to many devices and give you freedom to move around. They come with a cable as well if you want to do it the old fashioned way. Strange how some people complain about recharging headphones yet headphone jacks will probably disappear off of all phones in a few years. What wiil they do then?

wired headphone outsell bluetooth over 4 to 1 , and the fact is you really cant buy really highend bluetooth , cause well it does not exist , no one who truely seeks the best listening experence canuse bluetooth due to sound quality constraints

i have a couple of pair of bluetooth headphones and the can sound good witha decent bitrate file .... lower bitrate files which sound listenable with wired headphones , are however further degraded by bluetooth and below a threshold i personally adhere to .... your mileage may vary

bluertooth listeners are not threatened by the existabce of an audio jack in fact a 30 dollar pair of sony buds can save them when the bt is dead

and that happens .... also you cant charge and listen woithout a jack and thats a fact jack .... but calling for removal or abandonment of the jack just cause youve personally moved to BT is selfish and pointless

a decent android phone has a DAC that runs rings around the one in an apple phone ,,, further the dongle that apple forces on its wired listeners is one of the worst most unreliable products apple has ever sold with insanely hiigh failure rates .... it has a 1.5 star of 5 rating at apples own site

putting dacs in a dongle is as idiotic as the dongle in the first place

I have to unsubscribe from this thread because it's probably hurting my IQ.

BT adapter is better than an integral headphone jack. Yes sure sure. Just try to make yourself feel good after you bought into such modern stupidity that is a phone without a jack and now you need to rationalize it.

God some people. They used to teach us that the point of capitalism is to provide the product the customer wants. But somehow it has zombified to a version where the customer buys anything and then even goes on to evangelize the stupid decisions manufacturers make.

Apple stills earned more than 50% of the profit in the entire smartphone market. What it does becomes a benchmark also because of changes it brought in supply chain.

You guys really have to give up Sectionalism. I know you don't like it but what can you do? Spend big dollars to change the market or keep whining until it changes? In fact I don't even like being older by day, what a stupid mechanism of nature!

I have stopped using my phone for music since 2014. My iphone 5s sounded better than ipod classic i had at the time but SQ is harsh. I have been using DAP and small DACs (apogee groove is a great wired one for smartphone) since then and BT (more and more) since 2017...

streaming itself is becoming a big thing in home entertainment systems. Nobody wants to be left out. Smartphone is not only the heart of that, and also because they sells in huge numbers so it’s suitable for pushing new tech into mass production.

That’s a big reason why they are trying to turn smartphones a totally wireless device.

its already a totally wireless device .. and has been for many years .. mindless attacks on embedded standards like sd support or a headphone jack do nothing to enhance wirelessness /....that is simply idiocy

all it does is make corporate mandates harder to ignore, with the obedient apple users , they will do what is told them and will what they are instructed to buy .... others who like consumer choice will resist these corporate money grabs and fight to retain the right to make a consumer choice

but honestly is laying your slab of a phone on a slab of a wireless charger somehow indicative of some unicorn future?

who cares phones in fact all devices should be designed to be as convenient and useful as possible .... surely cutting trapazoids or bulletholes in screens denying the usefulness of sd support adding 1\2 tb for 100 bucks or losing the ability to use a normal available anywhere and non charging pair of headphone or bubs is the antithesis of convienence common sense and consumer friendliness

if your so down on wireless charging as it stands why are you distracting yourself with the harmless and useful audio jack.... whos presence on a phone only enhances usefulness and convienence and has zero effect on your dream of complete wirelessness

another apple zombie preaching anything apple does no matter how stupid and consumer hostile .... apple is turning into crapple .... sane people stay away from these overpriced poorly designed "devices

pro laptops with soldered on ssd??? what the.... butterly keyboards with insane failure rates fro 3 years running on 3000 usd laptops ?? that is arrogance

apples idiotic attack on the audio jack it the annoyance but the company iss in a nose dive due to its failures and consumer hostility , and their complete inability to make a pro product that isnt a locked down joke

the emf radiation of having blutooth buds or headphones pressed against the skull is a dangerous new threat to citizens that the world health organization is pointing out thru warnings about emf exposure

there isnt enough threat from the sea of frequencies of energy humanity is forced to bathe in daily??? we have to strap it to our skull ....,.

LOL supply chain, that's a good one. Well if anybody gets tired of Samsung and Apple, it seems LG are dedicated for the audiophiles' interests. And i like the rest of the phones too. While i don't take the photo specs too seriously, i do use my LGs for videos regularly, as video for me doesn't need to be as cinematic.

LG also have a very good mic design in their high end phones. I don't think i will ever buy another brand.

enemies of the headphone jack , attempting to disparage it by calling it old it was fine and works better than any other connector ... but when abandoned by apple it became something else ... passe old bla bl

this should be a case study in human psychology ... it is so close to a religious devotion it is frightening

... the connectors Apple has burdened its wired used with is a mess of failure , and perhaps the worst most unreliable device [ dongle ] apple has ever made with failure rates exceeding their phone and laptops

the apple lightning connector is flimsy and rife with problems with users reporting unwanted launching and behavior due to the tiny contacts shifting in the poor receptacle ... it is useless for joggers or anyone who moves it seems ... it cut out a channel easily and is truely garbage[ by design ? for apples financial reasons? i would not be surprised ]

apple is crapifying every user experence possible even their screen is a trapizoidal mess

LOL. According to the Verge, Google is also joining the camp of NO-HP-JACK as well. The WINTER IS COMING, despite your likes or not. Once they made even more thinner phones, you won't be able to use regular HP jacks anyway. You guys are getting pushed aside by mainstream manufacturers.

Apple solder SSD seems stupid but it is reasonable for their design. Current days, to speed up on site repairing, even Dell just swap your laptop motherboard as a standard practice. (You are not expecting technician to take out soldering kit, are you?) But Apple T2 encryption, like other TPM, will make your remaining SSD totally useless. You won't be able to salvage data or the drive at all on a different motherboard. This happens with ANY laptop that equipped with TPM.

It is user problem that the price is too high, not theirs. Companies should be allowed to choose customers as well. There are quite a few brands that only advertise in First-Class lounges. There is no fault in that.

the apple keyboard with it insanely high failure rate , often with weeks requires that over 50 rivits be groud off with a power tool and then tap those holes for screw threads to replace a keyboard turning something routine into a nightmare.... ram is soldered too ..... its simply a joke of a laptop and indefensible period

who cares what google does ???google and apple are pure and clear enemies of the consumer ... and samsung is its idiot ape .

Keyboard has nothing to do with motherboard. I hate that keyboard too. I have been eyeing on mbpr for quite some time but not buying because of that keyboard.

On the other hand, I think you should just stay away from business laptops and buy consumer ones. Many are aggressively designed that you cannot find any aftermarket parts that fits into it since 8 years ago when I bought the first one from Panasonic.

Well I only use workstations. I can safely tell you that they can be hard to upgrade as well because of bios white-list restrictions. HP and Lenovo have been doing this for a long time. Many big hospitals and gov offices doesn't care and just keep using HP.

So my point is very clear, you should not be in that market if you don't like it.

as a consumer i care deeply about the negative effect apple has on the industry

from absent sd

to absent audio jack

to mulitated screen

apples effect on other makers wishing to ape apple obscene profits even when producing crap has a terrible cost to consumer choice for many other makersmotherboard is a website mentioned above while the horrible butterfly keyboard is riveted to the lower case , it the same type of hostility to repair and upgradability to has them soldering ssd and ram in a claimed to be pro machine

apples consumer hostility and removal of important features spreads in the industry like a cancer

You can doesn't mean you should. My calculations runs 5-7*24 hours, some even longer. I cannot risk a bsod or days getting things repaired.

You are saying so only to buy cheap products, not what the workstation really provides. They are designed changeable only to make it more serviceable, not meant for you to change your ram. I had a machine that I added crucial ram and would randomly caused bsod after a sleep.

With service plan covered, no need to worry whether I am loosing my ssd during a MB switch. Everything is private cloud backup-ed.

As a side note, in fact even if you buy $1000 dollar DAPs, you will find DA part are all great but amp varies from ok to decent only. DACs in these mobile devices are hardly the bottleneck but it is easier to present its data compared with amp circuit. Amp circuits are much difficult to properly describe and measurements easily reveals issues in quality. In the past 10 years, amp circuits barely evolved and most portables (except those >$1500 dollar ones) won't exceed -110 dBA in noise compared with what an 10-year-old $2.00 USD DAC chip is capable of (120dB SNR and up)

When do we finally get to see new camera reviews? Currently, everything seems to be "review in progress". Even the DXO review of the Panasonic S1 had been released (95 points). They have a reputation to be slow.

It seems DP review is more and more focussing on Smartphones and gadgets, rather than their core focus: Cameras.

Can't agree with you more. In the good old days, DPreviee was the the main review website and they were very good at it. Now, this website seem to have degenerated to become a news website of sorts. Missed the old days when the reviews were very detailed.

Sporty, sporty. If you want to use wireless, use wireless. Your choice.

When I was getting into my last job, where I needed to use a hands-free, I was considering BT (I have a ton of them) but then just went with good old reliable wire. Phone in pocket, wire behind my neck. I have a call, I just reach for the earbud and stick it in my ear. Done, I take it out and let it hang. If I lose track of the earbuds, I just follow the wire from the phone and I'll find them.

So I vote for wire most of the time. A phone without that option would be literally unusable for my use.

Your example doesn't make much sense; my BT headphones sit behind my neck when I am using them just as your wired headphones do. In the context of your needs there is no difference. You have just made your mind up that wired is the right option.

cosinaphile I never gave an opinion of Apple. I don't use them and I don't like them. I don't even think killing the headphone jack was a good idea. But it's hardly been a death blow. Most people aren't listening to FLACs/WAV files on their phones so talk of sound quality is silly.

Bottom line, if a headphone jack is a big deal to you, make sure to buy a phone equipped with one. But writing chapters of novels over a feature on a phone seems like an epic waste of time. You have written more about this phone than the author of the article.

millions still attempt to listen to halfway decent audio... and video for that matter

that means a high bitrate mpeg or other better codecs , and a decent pair of wired buds \phones \speakers or headphones . when bluetooth enters the equation it can render a passable mpeg unlistenable. i know this personally as ive used bluetooth often..and realized a file here and there was really awful . and i sought to understand why i didnt realize it before. It was beacause a file is sometimes good enough with good buds , but when further degraded with bluetooth encode \decode it crapifyies a borderline file

im not a purest but bluetooth is still poor in every metric quality, battery. and pita connecting [ for those of us with a half dozen devices ]

bluetooth headphones are simply a bad choice ..... a decent pair of any wired buds or phones has them seeming like a soupcan on a string

sporty ... thank you for helping me understand your position on apple ....understood..

I've been using BT for years without much issue. Bottom line, if you don't want it, don't use it. But don't proclaim the end of the world when a device comes out that is built around it. Everyone doesn't have to do this to you. I'm typing this as I listen to a vinyl record

why? just dont use it ....... the idea a phone maker should strip a feature reminds my of the murder of the headphone jack conspiracy by phone makers.... bluetooth or use of usbc or whatever crap connector will poorly replace the solid headphone jack isnt affected by the presence or non presence of headphone jack .... its a fetish for idiots running blindfolded toward a "future" .... a diminished one

After a stale period of uninspired designs of phones just getting bigger and thinner with narrower bezels, manufacturers are starting to use their heads again. With some trial and error and the folding options that we will see, only the best designs will prevail.

Time will tell. Don’t know for what reason Samsung made this design. That way all the advantages of the back cameras which are usually better than the front serve for both orientations. Or perhaps the notches and holes on the front are making problems.

im fine with innovation ..... but removal of a headphone with over 75% of users .... and the vast majority of new sales being headphone jack ones ....most users are still using headphone jack devices and headphones period ,{ some costing 2000 usd } is a manipulative corporate slapas is removal of sd support .... if makers would stop fukeing with embedded widely used features to pressure consumers .... i would be fine ....

any phone that disallows sd support or a headphone jack is dead

dead dead dead ......

period

so as cool as a spinning camera multimodule is ..... this samsung is ceased to be, its gone to meet its maker .... it is an "ex" cellphone

polly !!!............pollly ........!!! wake up polly !!![ see it moved!]

Pretty innovative design. I like it. However, the problem with any of these solutions that involve moving parts and mechanisms is that they’re going to wear out quickly. When Apple made the home button totally haptic with no moving parts I was pretty excited - it was a great design evolution. My perfect phone would be a full-screen iPhone 8 (I like this size) with no front camera as I never use it.

My perfect phone would also be a full screen iPhone 8, or even a couple of millimetres shorter and narrower and no fingerprint sensor as I don’t find any use for it. But for some reason all manufacturers are going humongous on our asses. Perhaps the smallest usable phone one can find today is the Galaxy S10e which is already a few millimetres larger than the iPhone 8 but with a much larger screen estate.

its protected by.007mm ingreess at its seam 97% of the time. wouldnt worry.for those who rarely do selfies[ societies subset of all sane people,lol]

its a non issue , yet always have the ability for a rare video chat or video meeting. a wonderful approach if you ask me there is zero evidence of issues with this, whereas apple phone have had many many issues with conventional design from non functioning antenna if held normally, bent phones if put in a tight jeans ,to screen disease in iphone 6, failed circuits, an endless list of issues that frankly never seem to affect android units. when i see some data on failure, there are at least 6 phones that have or currently offer sliding and motorized components. ive never heard of issues from any of them , so i will not condemn them for not being 100 percent solid state, in the camera arena,how many of us are terrified of using a zoom for fear of a sand grain?go to the beach ????? be careful .....nuff said

Basically every phone before smartphones came about had moving parts and somehow they were fine, so I don't understand this sudden concern for sliding designs. I think in the ~12 years since the iPhone launched people have figured out how to make sliders better, not worse

Basically it's a form of rangefinder, guess. Unfortunately it's mainly used to create fake bokeh, which along with HDR are the two most horribly overused cliched techniques in the photo world right now. Sadly not just amateurs, but commercial photograhpers as well.

The technology is kind of impressive, though. I bought a TOF measuring device for construction projects.. package claims 1/16" accuracy to 30 ft. That seems to indeed be true.

I was just commenting on jxh's note, and pointing out that this laser distance measuring stuff can be pretty amazing. He used "impressive" for 1/16th inch accuracy, and it is, but it can even get crazy beyond that.

i seriously doubt any coating on these tiny camera windows will "wear out " lol[ they are not even "front " elements ].... just a thin window with coatings..... do you know the working life of the avg cellphone ????????

The innovation currently occurring at Samsung is unprecedented! Conversely, Apple continues to be asleep at the switch...BIG YAWN. However, have no fear, Apple will still survive due to support from their consumer zombies.

I like the concept of a fold-out camera, in theory. A few other phone makers have similar features. But in practice I'm pretty sure the mechanism takes up a ton more space than another camera would.

Which is ironic in a world where a 3.5mm jack or a microSD card are deemed too large to incorporate in a phone.

Also, can someone explain what are 48 MPixels good for? No I'm not buying it's good for cropping, I don't believe it has more than maybe 10 MP of useful resolution, at most.

Also while they're at it making a rotating camera module, maybe make it rotate in another axis too so it could take horizontal photos. That would be useful when using the phone as a GPS and dashcam together.

@EcoR1, It only has to last longer than the typical consumer upgrade cycle for a smartphone. And even if the automatic sliding or rotation mechanism breaks you may still be able to manually manipulate both with your hands.

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